Guide to the records of the Smolensk Oblast of the All-Union Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1917-41

"This guide describes and indexes the Smolensk regional records of the All-Union Communist Party (Vsesoiuznaia Kommunisticheskaia Partiia) of the Soviet Union, covering the period 1917 to 1941 ... The Smolensk Archive reached the United States as war booty, after the records seized in 1941 by German military forces in Russia fell into the hands of the U.S. Army in the course of military operations in Germany in 1945"--Page iii.